From: Kathleen Folger <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 23:58:19 -0400

RCUK released a report in March reviewing the implementation of the
policy on open access. PLoS accounted for the third highest number of
papers published (452) and received the 6th highest amount of money
(£465,085) for the 16 months under review.  Elsevier and Wiley, not
surprisingly, were numbers 1 and 2 respectively in terms of both
number of papers published (1,474 and 1,150) and amount of money
received (£2,138,925 and £1,862,993). The numbers are in Table 4 of
the report on page 13.

-Kathleen
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Kathleen M. Folger, Electronic Resources Officer
University of Michigan Library
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:46 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> From: Rick Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 01:16:19 +0000
>
> >More and more UK
> >research is now freely available to the world¹s readers - great.  But
> >a significant proportion of the cash is going to large commercial
> >publishers to pay inflated APCs for hybrid journals.  And the majority
> >of that proportion is going to publishers - most notably Elsevier- who
> >refuse to engage meaningfully with the UK community on double-dipping.
> >This is essentially free cash to those publishers - over a £1million a
> >year to Elsevier, for example.
>
> Just curious ‹ does anyone know how much of the cash in question is going
> to PLOS? (I genuinely don¹t know and have no particular expectation as to
> what the answer might be.)
>
>
> Rick Anderson
> Assoc. Dean for Collections & Scholarly Communication
> Marriott Library, University of Utah
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